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I might as well look as alien as possible because it reinforces a point I am making. My whole thing is that I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It’s the only way I can break so many rules. Remember, my background is totally strange - German classical opera. So I was uncertain about coming from that to rock. It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany. It was another rule I was breaking. You just didn’t do that. And I am helped by the fact that pop and rock, which you would think has no rules at all, is really just as conservative as classical music. So what I do is doubly shocking. The difference is that punk audiences admire that I can shock them. Nothing is sacred to me. Who is making the rules anyhow?
- Klaus Nomi Last weekend, my sweetie and I saw the new documentary on Klaus Nomi, "The Nomi Song". It was a great remembrance of Nomi, complete with remembrances by Ann Magnuson and Kenny Scharf and many of Nomi's collaborators - and it was also a really good document of life in East Village NYC when it was full of starving artists just on the edge of becoming legends (and that would come to include a certain little miss Madge Ciccone). For those who don't know who Klaus Nomi was, visit www.thenomisong.com - I promise, it's not boring. Anyone else see this movie? Any Nomi fans around these parts? | |
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Wasn't he on SNL with Bowie? | |
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GangstaFam said: Wasn't he on SNL with Bowie?
yup, he and joey arias sang background on "the man who sold the world" and "TVC15"...there were scenes and stories from the SNL performance in the documentary. | |
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Anxiety said: yup, he and joey arias sang background on "the man who sold the world" and "TVC15"...there were scenes and stories from the SNL performance in the documentary.
I wish I had video of that. | |
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Another sad casualty of AIDS.  | |
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GangstaFam said: Anxiety said: yup, he and joey arias sang background on "the man who sold the world" and "TVC15"...there were scenes and stories from the SNL performance in the documentary.
I wish I had video of that. you and me both...the DVD of the nomi documentary promises full length performances of scenes shown in the film. i'm hoping the SNL performances will be part of the special features (i plan on ordering the DVD anyway). even if the SNL bowie performances aren't included in the special features, the movie wasn't exactly skimpy with the clips shown. and i gotta say - it was so freakin' fabulous my eyeballs nearly exploded. | |
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Anxiety said: you and me both...the DVD of the nomi documentary promises full length performances of scenes shown in the film. i'm hoping the SNL performances will be part of the special features (i plan on ordering the DVD anyway).
even if the SNL bowie performances aren't included in the special features, the movie wasn't exactly skimpy with the clips shown. and i gotta say - it was so freakin' fabulous my eyeballs nearly exploded. I'm getting a high speed connection next week, so maybe we'll be able to remedy that.  | |
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More a Jobriath fan to be honest, but Nomi was fascinating all the same. | |
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BananaCologne said: More a Jobriath fan to be honest, but Nomi was fascinating all the same.
i'd love to see a jobriath documentary that was done with the same amount of love that was shown to the nomi movie - i know next to nothing about jobriath, and i didn't know much more about klaus until last weekend. i think one of the things that really connected me with the movie was how he was a part of the east village scene of the time, which is something that really strikes a tender and nostalgic chord with me. | |
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Yeah, that makes you and I both then. | |
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Anxiety said: GangstaFam said: I wish I had video of that. you and me both...the DVD of the nomi documentary promises full length performances of scenes shown in the film. i'm hoping the SNL performances will be part of the special features (i plan on ordering the DVD anyway). even if the SNL bowie performances aren't included in the special features, the movie wasn't exactly skimpy with the clips shown. and i gotta say - it was so freakin' fabulous my eyeballs nearly exploded. according to amazon.com it will be part of the special features. http://www.amazon.com/exe...ance&s=dvd I'm only aware of Klaus of this performance & the wonderful performance he did on Urgh! A Music War of Total Eclipse of the Heart.You can also hear him do an aria(amazing!) during the closing credits.There's at least 4 different versions of this classic concert film on bootleg DVD(I have three of them).Got my fingers crossed but hopefully I'll get a DVD of some rare Klaus Nomi promos soon.. | |
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PhilG said: Anxiety said: you and me both...the DVD of the nomi documentary promises full length performances of scenes shown in the film. i'm hoping the SNL performances will be part of the special features (i plan on ordering the DVD anyway). even if the SNL bowie performances aren't included in the special features, the movie wasn't exactly skimpy with the clips shown. and i gotta say - it was so freakin' fabulous my eyeballs nearly exploded. according to amazon.com it will be part of the special features. http://www.amazon.com/exe...ance&s=dvd I'm only aware of Klaus of this performance & the wonderful performance he did on Urgh! A Music War of Total Eclipse of the Heart.You can also hear him do an aria(amazing!) during the closing credits.There's at least 4 different versions of this classic concert film on bootleg DVD(I have three of them).Got my fingers crossed but hopefully I'll get a DVD of some rare Klaus Nomi promos soon.. are you sure it was 'total eclipse of the heart' and not nomi's song 'total eclipse'? the nomi documentary has a scene from "urgh" where he sings a song called 'total eclipse' and i was expecting it to be the bonnie tyler song, but it wasn't. | |
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Anxiety said: PhilG said: according to amazon.com it will be part of the special features. http://www.amazon.com/exe...ance&s=dvd I'm only aware of Klaus of this performance & the wonderful performance he did on Urgh! A Music War of Total Eclipse of the Heart.You can also hear him do an aria(amazing!) during the closing credits.There's at least 4 different versions of this classic concert film on bootleg DVD(I have three of them).Got my fingers crossed but hopefully I'll get a DVD of some rare Klaus Nomi promos soon.. are you sure it was 'total eclipse of the heart' and not nomi's song 'total eclipse'? the nomi documentary has a scene from "urgh" where he sings a song called 'total eclipse' and i was expecting it to be the bonnie tyler song, but it wasn't. My bad.You're right! It's Total Eclipse not that cheesy song from Bonnie Tyler. | |
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Anxiety said: are you sure it was 'total eclipse of the heart' and not nomi's song 'total eclipse'? the nomi documentary has a scene from "urgh" where he sings a song called 'total eclipse' and i was expecting it to be the bonnie tyler song, but it wasn't.
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